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Kevin MacLeod at Incompetech has a very generous license agreement. The mp3 files are free with attribution, and for under $6.00 you can download the uncompressed elements (still under attribution). If you want to purchase a license without credit I believe his stuff is in the $30.00 range.

@Triem23 I don't think Video Blocks has audio anymore for new subscribers since they started Audio Blocks. I'm pretty sure we both have subscriptions that started before Audio Blocks and we get grandfathered access but new subscribers have to do both subscriptions to access everything.

These days I keep forgetting about Digital Juice. I didn't have the money when they first changed over to their new plans. Overall it's a really good deal if you can handle the one time cost

@Aladdin4d I was fortunate enough to be able to get my DJ membership on one of those years where I actually made money. I locked in my "Founders Price." I paid for the privilege if getting the same four rotating "sales" in my email...

Thanks a lot guys. Found some really good ones. It's become difficult to choose now :P

hey cleanshot4k, I did check out 909 Music, the quality is absolutely incredible. Top-level studio quality. It says 100+ tracks are for free, but such high quality music is being given out for free which astounds me.

Need to check your tips. I've found next one: http://www.melodyloops.com/music/free/. Free to download background music. But maybe you have better one. If you can, help me to decide what are the best. I am searching the coolest.

Some great recommendations on this list guys! I personally like the YouTube Audio Library - it's got loads of great pieces of music (though as @Triem23 said, depending on how much time you spend on YouTube *cough cough* you may recognise some tracks which will be jarring). Generally though, an awesome resource.

@KirstieT although, to be fair, this can be an issue with any stock media, whether music, SFX, photos, videos... When I was doing the audio mix for the Simon tribute... let's just say that other than the HF2 logo, and the couple of clips that have voices in them that's a complete remix--it just turns out that I have the same audio libraries as Simon, and was able to match the original audio from the tuts... Then there's things like stock explosions. It's so good that FxHome, RodyPolis and Triune Films all released pyro packs recently, because I was getting damn tired of that same Action Essentials explosion being in anything.

Also, the Willheim Scream is dead. You're not Ben Burtt. Don't use it.

I'm kinda to the point where I can instantly recognize any stock effect I hear. "Doom doors. Pig squeal. Gun cock."

Also, the Willheim Scream is dead. You're not Ben Burtt. Don't use it.

Just try and stop me.

More constructively, just a word of caution about all of these "royalty-free" sites. Read the fine print and make sure that the material they're offering is actually what they say it is. Any shady Sadie can rip a bunch of tracks from random locations and put up a website saying it's "royalty free" when it is, in fact, not. (Oh, and I guess this is where my first bit ties into my second bit) I occasionally hear stuff that I know isn't free to use while shuffling through them, so do your due diligence.

Soundcloud has SOME free music, kind of hard to find. Also Incompitech.com is good choice. Lastly Youtube's creator studio music library is decent option but many of those sing get reused which I am not in favor.

I agree with @TriFlixFilms, the YouTube audio library is a great resource. Some of them are overused, but they do update them fairly regularly so you could come across a great one. I had a quick look for you - they don't have a fantasy section but Ambient Drmatic music would work well - and there's a pretty cinematic song called 'Belief' by 'Silent Partner' which could work well for you (depending on your vid of course). It's all free, so worth a peruse!